Versuri What Do You Hear In These Sounds

Words and music by Dar Williams
I don't go to therapy to find out if I'm a freak
I go and I find the one and only answer every
week
And it's just me and all the memories to follow
Down any course that fits within a fifty minute
hour
And we fathom all the mysteries, explicit and
inherent
When I hit a rut, she says to try the other
parent
And she's so kind, I think she wants to tell me
something,
But she knows that its much better if I get it
for myself...
And she says
Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, What do you hear in these
sounds?
And... Oooooooh,aaaaaaah
What do you hear in these sounds?????
I say I hear a doubt, with the voice of true
believing
And the promises to stay, and the footsteps that
are leaving
And she says Oh, I say What?...she says Exactly,
I sayWhat, you think I'm angry
Does that mean you think I'm angry?
She says Look, you come here every week
With jigsaw pieces of your past
Its all on little soundbytes and voices out of
photographs
And that's all yours, that's the guide, that's
the map
So tell me, where does the arrow point to?
WHO INVENTED ROSES?
and.......
Oooooooh,aaaaaaah
What do you hear in these sounds?
And...Oooooooh,aaaaaaah
What do you hear in these sounds?????
And when I talk about therapy, I know what people
think
That it only makes you selfish and in love with
your shrink
But Oh how I loved everybody else
When I finally got to talk so much about
myself............
And I wake up and I ask myself what state I'm in
And I say well I'm lucky, cause I am like East
Berlin
I had this wall and what I knew of the free world
Was that I could see their fireworks
And I could hear their radio
And I thought that if we met, I would only start
confessing
And they'd know that I was scared
They'd would know that I was guessing
But the wall came down and there they stood
before me
With their stumbling and their mumbling
And their calling out just like me...and...
Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, The stories that nobody
hears...and...
Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, and I collect these sounds in
my ears...and
Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, that's what I hear in these
sounds...and...
Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, that's what I hear in
these......
that's what I hear in these SOUU OUUUN NNNDS!